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  1. Born at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, son of Samuel George Whitemore (1907-1987), a clerk at an oil company, and Kathleen Alma, née Fletcher, [3] Whitemore studied for the stage at London 's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he was taught by Peter Barkworth, then on the staff at RADA, who recognised he had the potential to make a significant ...

  2. Jul 19, 2018 · Hugh Whitemore, the British playwright renowned for dramatising the lives of such real-life figures as Alan Turing and Winston Churchill, has died at 82. Breaking the Code, his 1986 play about ...

  3. Breaking the Code is a 1986 British play by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II and a pioneer of computer science. The play thematically links Turing's cryptographic activities with his attempts to grapple with his homosexuality.

    • Hugh Whitemore
    • 1986
  4. Nov 23, 1987 · T he title of Hugh Whitemore’s elegant and poignant biographical play contains at least four layers of meaning. Taken together, they explain what intrigued Whitemore in the life of Alan Turing ...

    • William A. Henry III
  5. Hugh Whitemore was born on 16 June 1936 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), The Gathering Storm (2002) and Dummy (1977). He was married to Rohan McCullough and Sheila Lemon.

    • June 16, 1936
    • July 17, 2018
  6. Jul 17, 2018 · Whitemore's best known work taking the form of a staged biography was Breaking the Code (1986) which was centered on Alan Turing, who was responsible for cracking the German Enigma code during World War II and resisted an adherence to the English code of sexual discretion with his homosexuality, for which he was charged with gross indecency. A ...

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  8. Hugh Whitemore. Writer. 16 June 1936 to 17 July 2018. A British writer who began his career training to be an actor at RADA, Whitemore found success penning scripts both for the stage and television that often hit upon themes of friendship and betrayal. He received BAFTA nominations for his work on Cider With Rosie (1971), 84 Charing Cross Road ...

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